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Limited 180 gram heavyweight vinyl LP repressing. Decca is releasing their greatest recordings on vinyl and all are mastered at Abbey Road Studios from original analog tapes and pressed on 180 gram vinyl by OPTIMAL. This release features John Lanchberry and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in excerpts from the ballet La Fille mal Gardée. "The Sound quality is simply superb.' -(Gramophone). La Fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère. The ballet was premiered on 1 July 1789 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France under the title Le ballet de la paille, ou Il n'est qu'un pas du mal au bien (The Ballet of Straw, or There is Only One Step from Bad to Good).